Miningman...and the graphics, zipping from planet to planet, moon to moon, coming up on them real fast and stopping...I don't know if Gerry Anderson was the first to do it but he sure was imitated a lot after that.
I forgot that. And all it took was a moment's recollection and sure enough!
(Of course it wasn't far from that style to the intro to Hoppity Hooper, and thence by a commodius vicus of recirculation to SpongeBob and the incredibly frenetic Disney XD/Nickelodeon stuff that goes by too fast for Adderall...)
Diver Dan was such a great show. So smart a show. Supercar was fabulous. How about Stingray and of course "Thunderbirds are a go". Geez we had it good.
Geez we had it good.
Stingray of course. But you remind me a bit of a friend we teased once when she referred to that movie "the mirror that has two faces" ... It's "Thunderbirds are GO!" (And in that spirit, I promptly think of Speed Racer ... the original, not the weird remake thing). On the whole, though, I'm glad the "F.A.B." thing didn't catch on as a nadsat equivalent...
And we better add Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons while we're at it. I still am haunted a bit by the "we must have a closer look" mistake right at the beginning that drove all the subsequent plots; it put a whole different spin on how I looked at policy and war. Was it supposed to do that?
RME- Seldom disagree with you, but, I loved that tune at the end of Fireball XL5. Yes of course it was way "out of place" and on many levels, I mean..a love song for kids? ..and the style?...but that is exactly why it was so great. It was unexpected and daring. It was so smooth!
"My heart would be a Fireball....everytime I gaze into your starry eyes"
Used that line here and there. Worked for me. Ahem.
...and the graphics, zipping from planet to planet, moon to moon, coming up on them real fast and stopping...I don't know if Gerry Anderson was the first to do it but he sure was imitated a lot after that.
Diver Dan was such a great show. So smart a show. Supercar was fabulous. How about Stingray and of course "Thunderbirds are a go".
Absolutely horrible what happened to Captain Kangaroo video being lost forever..those shows were brilliant and very funny.
Didn't think anyone read any of that Port Burwell stuff. NDG only. Thanks.
Norm- I've read that Rod Sterlings ideas were based on the horrible things he saw and what it did to people while fighting in the Pacific Theatre. A lot of it was very dark. There was little hope and salvation in the Twilight Zone. Lot of great actors, long list.
Rod Serling produced some scenarios that were 'food for thought' back then.
Norm
MiningmanSaturday mornings I kind of fancied that Fireball XL5.
I think I liked ALL the Gerry Anderson shows, starting with the somewhat improbable Diver Dan. My father bought a '62 Thunderbird that looked reasonably like Supercar (Elwood Engle strikes again!) -- I confess to having one big problem with Fireball XL5 and that was the extremely hokey Tom Jones-style song they shoved in at the end ... "I wish I was a spaaaace-man, the fastest guy alive" ... even as a kid I didn't like it and realized it didn't fit with serious science fiction. Didn't help when years later I learned about quadrant marketing and so forth.
The Internet is a wonderful thing to help preserve many of these things that I thought would be around forever and then largely disappeared. I joined the Museum of Broadcasting in LA in the '90s in part to research where some of the almost accidental surviving recordings of some of these shows could be found. Now you can find them on YouTube.
Still hard to believe, though, that substantially all the Captain Kangaroo shows are gone. I spent years happily watching that program, don't remember most of the detail, but always thought I would be able to watch the reruns to remember. Now it is one with the CaSo and Port Burwell ... hell, Ashtabula where there is little left but a bunch of shiny stripes in the streets and big empty yards.
Miningman RME- Old Twilight Zone reruns have a "Pall Mall" pack in the corner as the credits roll by. You would think they could digitally remove that but there it is! Saw it just the other night on the Space Channel.
RME- Old Twilight Zone reruns have a "Pall Mall" pack in the corner as the credits roll by. You would think they could digitally remove that but there it is! Saw it just the other night on the Space Channel.
I also remember seeing the closing credits of "Twilight Zone" reruns in the late 1980's with the outline of the cigarette package quite visible but the actual package blacked out.
I'm sure that I'm not the only person who came to this conclusion but "Night Gallery" was really a new version of "The Twilight Zone".
Saturday mornings I kind of fancied that Fireball XL5. Loved the opening sequence and the music at the end. Bought a complete set from a specialist importer in old movies and videos, they came from England, 20 years ago now. Unbelievable how many "things" they had on that show that appeared later in Star Trek. They had a doctor named "Bones".
I was thinking saturday morning-type cartoons that kids watch. George of the Jungle, Beanie and Cecil, Road Runner, many more, a few mentioned. Today, most are pablum or anime. I think a top-notch cartoon can appeal to both child and adult. Doesn't have to be raunchy or cynical.
tree68Anyone remember "Clutch Cargo?" As I recall, he was an adventurer. The animation was pretty bad, but the show was entertaining.
The "other" Syncro-Vox show, "Scott McCloud, Space Angel" was in my opinion quite a bit better. This and the old 'Planet Patrol' (which turns out to have been called 'Space Patrol' most other places) were my favorite shows in the early '60s.
And yes, "Jonny Quest" was Hanna-Barbera's entree into 'serious' cartooning.
(Speaking of Hanna-Barbera, if there is any question certain shows were intended for a 'mature audience', perhaps this will jog your memory:)
Weedsville- How prophetic. Must have been Colorado or Washington State. Or actually anywhere these days.
Now Sky King-- Hated that show...it replaced Casey Jones.
I'd forgotten about that. "Hey Rocky! Watch me pull a rabbit our of my hat!". I now have the urge to go looking for Johnny Quest on YouTube. I even know a guy named Rayce.
Thanks to Chris / CopCarSS for my avatar.
tree68 Anyone remember "Clutch Cargo?" As I recall, he was an adventurer. The animation was pretty bad, but the show was entertaining. Heck, cartoons were pretty much what you did on Saturday morning. The last show we usually watched on those Saturdays was "Sky King," the roar of his airplane during the intro combining with the noon fire siren in the village where we lived. Any question about who cartoons are usually for can be answered with Betty Boop...
Anyone remember "Clutch Cargo?" As I recall, he was an adventurer. The animation was pretty bad, but the show was entertaining.
Heck, cartoons were pretty much what you did on Saturday morning. The last show we usually watched on those Saturdays was "Sky King," the roar of his airplane during the intro combining with the noon fire siren in the village where we lived.
Any question about who cartoons are usually for can be answered with Betty Boop...
tree68Anyone remember "Clutch Cargo?" As I recall, he was an adventurer. The animation was pretty bad, but the show was entertaining. Heck, cartoons were pretty much what you did on Saturday morning. The last show we usually watched on those Saturdays was "Sky King," the roar of his airplane during the intro combining with the noon fire siren in the village where we lived. Any question about who cartoons are usually for can be answered with Betty Boop...
Never too old to have a happy childhood!
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Zugmann- OK, good good. Will do some searching and check these shows out. At least I know what to look for now.
Current cartoons?
American side, I'm watiing for the next season of Rooster Teeth's RWBY. Across the pacific, last newer series I watched was Yōjo Senki (Saga of Tanya the Evil). I'm also watching some of the older anime Fairy Tail. I liked the first season of Rick and Morty, but lost interest in the second, and haven't bothered with the third.
It's been fun. But it isn't much fun anymore. Signing off for now.
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South Park would be my third choice, they provide probably the best satire & parody on the air today.
But the have been censored (by their own network) a few times, notably the episodes "200" and "201", which mock the Islamic prophet cartoon craziness from a few years ago. Interestingly the show had previously depicted the prophet Muhammad in the episode "Super Best Friends" (featuring a superhero team composed of religious figures like Jesus and Buddha) with aired without controversy.
Unfortunately "Super Best Friends" is no longer aired as a rerun, and is not officially available online either.
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SD70M-2DudeBut my second pick for a day of binge-watching would be some old Warner Bros cartoons, which were intended for children (and their parents) at the time but still contain a surprising amount of violence, racism and sexuality (look up what Pepe-le-Pew likes). The latter two points were either considered normal back then or would have flown over the heads of most viewers.
Virtually everything we laughed at as kids of the 40's-50's & early 60's is so non-PC as to no be able to shown on broadcast TV these day's. That being said I am amazed how much 'social commentary' gets through on 'The Simpsons', 'Family Guy', 'South Park' and others.
Murphy Siding zugmann Gramp (I did love the Dudley Doolittle cartoons when I was a kid. Cartoons today are garbage. Feel sad for the kids). Plenty of good cartoons still around. Most of them don't seem to be aimed at kids though.
zugmann Gramp (I did love the Dudley Doolittle cartoons when I was a kid. Cartoons today are garbage. Feel sad for the kids). Plenty of good cartoons still around.
Gramp (I did love the Dudley Doolittle cartoons when I was a kid. Cartoons today are garbage. Feel sad for the kids).
Plenty of good cartoons still around.
Most of them don't seem to be aimed at kids though.
Rick and Morty is my favourite modern cartoon (currently in its third season), and it is definately not aimed at children.
But my second pick for a day of binge-watching would be some old Warner Bros cartoons, which were intended for children (and their parents) at the time but still contain a surprising amount of violence, racism and sexuality (look up what Pepe-le-Pew likes). The latter two points were either considered normal back then or would have flown over the heads of most viewers.
Gramp Thankfully now our national security is being run by more serious, less politically-correct people
Thankfully now our national security is being run by more serious, less politically-correct people
A guy walks into a bar and says, "Ouch!".
You just figured that out?? Moose and Squirrel were really cartoons for adults, and that was fifty years ago.
Gramp(I did love the Dudley Doolittle cartoons when I was a kid. Cartoons today are garbage. Feel sad for the kids).
Oops, my error. Thanks for correction. Time for bed.
You mean Dudley Do-Right . Dudley Dolittle is an actor/comedian
I tried to sell my two cents worth, but no one would give me a plug nickel for it.
I don't have a leg to stand on.
Just hoping we remain vigilant. I think we took our intelligence eyes off of the Middle East in the late 90's because our attention was drawn to all that was going on in the Balkans (Kosovo, etc.). It's as if we didn't learn from the 1993 WTC bombing.
http://www.history.com/news/remembering-the-1993-world-trade-center-bombing
Eight years later, 9/11.
And let's not make light of Canada, and what can happen.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lac-Mégantic_rail_disaster
(I did love the Dudley Doolittle cartoons when I was a kid. Cartoons today are garbage. Feel sad for the kids).
CMStPnPWell they know next to nobody rides Amtrak, subway is enclosed which will increase the killing power of any explosive. So they would probably focus on underground subways, in my opinion
I suspect that most of them don't understand the sheer size of the US - most of the states are bigger than their countries.
If they do realize that, they likely know that blowing up the local convenience store in Podunk, Anywhere, isn't going to garner the same media coverage (which is what they want/need) as pulling something off in a major population/media center.
What a great film. Wow. The Queen sure looked cold in that snow scene. Nice Dalmatian!
Lots of Mounties...at least some things have not changed, except for the odd one in a Turban.
Good ole Louis St. Laurent, "Uncle Louis", our version of "Ike", about the same corresponding time and limits too. Funny how that is.
Nice shot of the streamlined CNR Northern near the start.
The RCAF flag and band...they are bringing all that back.
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